Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

Albert Einstein’s so-called God letter first surfaced in 2008, when it fetched four hundred and four thousand dollars in a sale at a British auction house. The letter came back into the news earlier ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. — Albert Einstein ...

The German theoretical physicist, author of the theory of relativity, left behind a legacy of powerful quotations that remain ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...